Pray that Jesus will remove this government as they are greedy and want more and

[Dexter2020]

Pray that Jesus will remove this government as they are greedy and want more and more wealth but sleep in the parliamentary houses during debates and come out with unsound policies like using our money to fund their own pleasure and get in those foreigners as part of the xenocentric scheme to harm the local population and yet they have the cheek to increase their pay to ###% increment while the locals don't have jobs and those foreigners who are greedy and covetous that why they come to ### to snatch our jobs.

 

[Articles]

We hear your frustration and pain over what you see as greed and injustice and lack of care for the local people, and we join you in bringing this burden before the Lord in Jesus' name.

We understand the anger that rises when leaders appear to be self serving, sleeping at their duties and making policies that burden the people while enriching themselves. The Bible tells us that God sees this. Proverbs 29:2 says when the righteous thrive, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan. Proverbs 14:31 says he who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker. God is not blind to greed or to leaders who neglect justice, and Luke 12:15 warns us to beware of covetousness, for a man's life does not consist of the abundance of his possessions, and 1 Timothy 6:10 reminds us that the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.

Yet we must also align our prayers with how God calls us to view government and other people. Romans 13:1 tells us let every person be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. Daniel 2:21 tells us that He removes kings and sets up kings. It is God who is sovereign over the raising up and removing of governments, not us. Therefore we are commanded not to curse or hate our leaders but to pray for them. 1 Timothy 2:1-2 urges that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men, for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence. 1 Peter 2:17 says honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

We also must gently rebuke the spirit of hostility toward foreigners in this request. While we understand the fear over jobs and provision for local families, God calls us to a different heart toward the stranger. Leviticus 19:33-34 says if a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native born among you, and you shall love him as yourself. To label all foreigners as greedy and covetous and to desire their harm is not from the Lord, and it gives place to bitterness. Ephesians 4:31 says let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice. We are called to love our neighbors, including those from other nations, and to trust God for our provision rather than harboring hatred. God desires that all people would come to know Him, and many who come to a new land are simply seeking to provide for their families.

We also must examine our own hearts, for covetousness can take root in us as well when we fixate on wealth and pay increases. God calls both ruler and citizen to contentment and integrity and to work diligently as unto Him.

So we pray together with you, seeking God's will.

Father in heaven, in the name of Jesus Christ we come before Your throne. You are sovereign and You see all injustice, all greed, all laziness in high office, and all the struggles of those without work. We ask first that You would forgive us where we have harbored anger, hatred, or bitterness toward our leaders or toward foreigners, and cleanse our hearts. Lord, we pray for our government, that You would convict those who are greedy and self serving, that You would awaken them to righteousness and to serve the people with wisdom, diligence and fear of You. Remove corruption and unsound counsel, and if it is Your will, remove those who refuse to repent and raise up leaders who will execute justice and love mercy. We pray for provision for the local people who are struggling for jobs, that You would open doors for work and sustain families, and that You would help us to love the foreigner among us as You have commanded, showing Christ's love while also seeking justice and wise stewardship of our nation. Let Your will be done, and let Your peace guard our hearts as we trust not in princes but in You. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

We encourage you to continue to pray faithfully for those in authority rather than praying only for their destruction, to seek godly civic engagement where God allows, to work heartily as for the Lord, and to show love to all people while trusting God to provide and to judge with perfect righteousness.

 

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We hear how heavy and frustrating this feels for you, watching leaders you feel are not serving well while you and others around you are struggling to find work and make ends meet. It makes sense you would feel angry and worn down when hard work doesn't seem to lead to provision, and when decisions made far away feel like they land hard on everyday life.

Anger often works like a signal, telling us something we care deeply about feels threatened or overlooked. For you it sounds like that includes a desire for fairness, for leaders to act with integrity, and for your community to have opportunity and dignity. Naming what is underneath the frustration can help keep it from spilling over in ways that hurt you more.

One small step that sometimes helps is to give that concern a constructive place to go. We have found it helpful to bring specific burdens to the Lord in prayer regularly, and also to talk them through with a trusted pastor or wise friend in your community who knows the local situation. If there are lawful, peaceful ways to stay informed and engaged as a citizen, that can also be a steady outlet for caring about your neighbors and your nation.

We are praying for you.

Father, we bring our friend to You and ask for Your peace in the midst of this burden. Provide for daily needs, open doors for work, and give wisdom and integrity to those in authority. Guard our friend's heart from bitterness and guide him toward what is good and right. In Jesus' name, amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

Your cry concerning those set over you has been heard, and it reveals a heart much vexed by what you perceive to be greed, sloth and unsound policy in high places, and by the pressure of want of work among your own people.

There is no attribute more comforting to the child of God than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. The Lord reigns, and we must learn to recognize and admire it. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe troubles, we believe that Sovereignty has ordained our afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all. It is not by chance that rulers rise or fall, for there is Divine Sovereignty in the distribution of gifts honourable and in the ordering of nations. This truth does not teach us to be idle or indifferent to injustice, but it does teach us to trust the living God rather than to trust in the removal of one set of men and the setting up of another as though that alone could give us peace.

You speak of greed and of the love of wealth. Remember that a man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer. Contentment is one of the flowers of heaven, and if we would have it, it must be cultivated, and that not by any stoic process of self government, but simply and exclusively by faith in the Son of God. His faith was predestinarian, and as such he had as much peaceful contentment in his breast while tribulation lasted as when it had closed. If we look to princes or to policies to satisfy us, we shall drink a bitter cup and still thirst. If we learn to trust in God in temporal things, acting in all prudence and in all uprightness, and relying simply and entirely upon Him, we shall not have to mourn because we have used sinful means to grow rich, nor shall we be consumed with envy.

Concerning your hard words toward those who have come from other lands, hear what grace does in the soul. Our first sight of Christ brings bitterness into our soul, a mourning for Him as one mourns for his only son, and that bitterness has most gracious effects upon us. One effect of this bitterness upon the soul that feels it is to take away all bitterness against your fellow men, and the world loses its charms for true believers. God would have us mourn over sin, our own sin first of all, and then find Christ very sweet, not cherish a bitter spirit toward any fellow creature made in His image. The Scripture bids us pray for them that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, and it bids us love the sojourner and do good to all men. To ascribe to strangers as a people that they are greedy and covetous and come only to snatch what is yours is not the language of that love, and it will corrode your own peace more than it will correct any wrong in the land.

We will pray with you, but not as you have phrased it. We will pray that the Lord, who is a thinking, active, working, personal God who comes into the midst of this world and does not leave it to go on by itself, would grant to those who govern repentance where there is sloth and avarice, wisdom where there is folly, and justice where there is oppression. We will pray that He would provide honest work and daily bread for you and your neighbours, and keep you from grieving too much over losses and crosses in business, for we trust in the living God, the real God, who commanded light to shine out of darkness. We will pray that He would guard your heart from covetousness and from hatred of your neighbour, and cultivate in you that contentment which is by faith in the Son of God, so that whether you abound or suffer need, you may say with the apostle, I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

Cast your burden upon the Lord, trust your merciful God to help you, to forgive you, to restore you, and to bear you through the trials you expect. Trust Him as you sink and you shall swim. Trust Him as you feel yourself dying and you shall live.